Abstract
Evaluation of Safranbolu Tourism Destination in the context of Accessible Tourism
Today, the number of research on the effective integration of disable people to the social life has been increasing rapidly. Nowadays, the research on the attendance of disabled people to tourism movements come into prominence. Therefore, the term ‘accessible tourism’ become more important. Accessible tourism is a type of tourism which allows people to participate in tourism activities even if they have disabilities. There are many substructure criterias determined by different international organizations in order to provide accessible tourism activities The most well-known substructure criterias are provided by the UNWTO. In particular, under these substructure criterias, 7 European city have been determined as accessible cities. Turkish tourism destinations are somewhat compatible with these criterias. Besides some destinations have lack of substructure in terms of accessible tourism. In this paper, Safranbolu as a cultural tourism destination has been evaluated in terms of its accessible tourism potentials and some suggestions have been made for meeting the substructure criterias of accessible tourism.
Keywords
Disability, Accessibility, Accessible Tourism, Safranbolu
